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i don't think postmodern deconstruction or cynicism is a problem for ASOIAF, why should we have another 'and they lived happily ever after' fantasy ending? in fact, it was that part of his writing that I found most attractive because it is realistic in a way, and different to all other fantasy works. everything else you said I agree with, and this was a fantastic video.

Mohu se zeptat, co studuješ? Tipoval bych možná antropologii nebo religionistiku (... nebo filozofii). Jinak pěkná a zajímavá esej.

Beautiful work there! I'd like to add that the simplest way for an elite class to go through all of this is to "ride waves" that they identify rather than create or rule those waves.

I think at least in terms of subversion of traditional fantasy, it's possible to do what Martin's trying. Joe Abercrombie's 'First Law' series springs to mind as a comparison with a similar tone, similar theme, but ultimately less vindictive towards the tropes it subverts, and less ambitious in its subversion. Rather than trying to postmodernise himself into a new dimension where no ending can possibly suffice because things ending is a fantasy trope, Abercrombie stays firmly on the trail of high fantasy to satirize it. The noble youth takes the throne, the rustic warrior returns to his home, the slave is freed, the wise wizard passes back into mystery and legend, and each of these endings is turned delightfully on its head. Such a solution would be impossible for Martin I believe, even if he could find the path back to it from the wilderness he's wandered into, because to directly satirize the existing structure of fantasy would be to acknowledge the ultimately derivative nature of his work, the fact that to define himself by how much he's NOT copying Tolkien is ultimately no more creative than copying Tolkien.

I can't believe it! You were a dirty anti-carrotist all along! :(

God bless your and your work ❤❤❤ respect from Croatia ❤

This was a great video but I'd really love a follow up on how the Anti-carrot dissidents can respond and counteract the establishment.

It's always impressive to see the work of someone with deep insight, and the ability to explain it. We will watch your career with great interest. I saw your video on George RR Martin's work a few months back, not too long after it came out when I was on a binge of ASOIAF theory videos. I then proceeded to go though every other video on your channel and and bookmark it. As to this video, I must ask you - is there a way out? Can these tactics be reversed? I'm sure that any resemblances to government actions ongoing or historical are purely intentional. No-one likes journalists or politicians. I don't know if there is a Czech equivalent, but a general feeling in the English-speaking world is encapsulated by the old joke "How can you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving." Perhaps an alternate account, like Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", could eviscerate the establishment's approach. The simpler, the better. For instance, the establishment still talk about Gamer Gate, an event that occured ten years ago, since two competing narratives still exist, and thus the victory was not absolute. "Gamer Gate is about ethics in journalism" vs "The Gamer Gate Harrassment campaign".

Really good video

I think the most sad part of this video is when I realised that people will naturally igbore the Systematic Pattern Analogy oresented. And instead will start to see similarities of the presented pattern in tegards to issues they themselves do not like in thwir own respective nations. Thus rather than a philosophical analogy, they see it as a direct critique of the issues they disagree with. What more, they even believe that you use the analogy of a carrot as a secret code for their X issue because you miggt get canceled otherwise As you probably noticed youself with the coments refering to "x issue in real life".

Memes are truly the DNA of the soul 🥲

Excellent video! Are you a fellow novel writer, by any chance?

I’m not a carrotphobe. I’m not afraid of carrots. I just think they can’t truly be integrated into our cultural diet.

Towards the end things got real familiar...

Who's here after Trump got declared guilty?

"Discrediting/Criminalizing Rival Elites" you could not have posted this on a more accurate day

AI?

Got recommended this out of the blue. Good shit!

I could add something to all this but that would be me just citing Mircea Eliade or C S Lewis, so I wont. Anyway, good video essay.

Kudos on all the effort you put on your videos. They are very well made! That being said, I was left with a bit of a sour taste, because you seem to imply that there is no 'way out' so to speak. The point being that this is all unavoidable? That complex sociomaterial problems can only either be reduced to simple yes/no dichotomies or else bogged down to infinitely nuanced discussions that get nowhere while power keeps working its ways to divert the populace's attention from the real issues? I appreciate the critique, certainly, it is well made, but also quite cynical.

I am a transgender woman, so my very existence is at the flashpoint of the "culture war", and all the way thru, I have been comparing carrot-eating to gender transition. I imagine that in Somveria, perhaps a wealthy, celebrated author of fantasy novels would have publicly proclaimed, "If those carrot-pushers had held sway when I was a little girl, then I probably would have been put on a steady diet of carrots as a child!" A deca-billionaire technology magnate would see his wife leave him for one of those dirty carrot-eaters, and perhaps his child would grow up to be a carrot-eater too, much to his dismay, and he would purchase a major social media platform and broadcast his opinion that allowing children to taste carrots is child abuse and that adult carrot-eaters are to be treated with suspicion. I imagine a minister preaching a firebrand sermon about how if those filthy carrot-eaters had their way, we would see our children have their skin color turn to a sickly orange color as social taboo and criminalization are desperately needed to keep those disgusting, addictive, and powerfully alluring carrots out of the bodies of Somveria as the devil schemes every day to turn Somveria into a nation of degenerates. Meanwhile, I just like to hang out with my friends and eat my carrots because they are essential to my well-being. I would also like to point out that in your story, the authorities sponsor a Carrot Pride march. I'm guessing that this is perhaps meant to be analogous to LGBT Pride. If so, the analogy is out of sync with history because as I understandm LGBT Pride has its roots in riots and protests against the authorities raiding LGBT venues and criminalizing and arresting LGBT people in the United States. Magne Mirare, your AI art is totally on point. Did you make it with Midjourney? You have my views. Fellow UA-camrs, roast me!

Pro-Skub or Anti-Skub?

Good to see a fellow countryman seeing beyond the simplistic way culture war is usually sold to us. It is an excellent reminder of how things actually work

Glad to be here before this channel inevitably blows up. Excellent work as always.

Great explanation Also this whole carrot thing is probably best effort to avoid potential demonetization I ever seen... xD

At one point the elites can just establish think tanks and various foundations to further their goals almost constantly and automatically without their direct influence, they merely have to fund these places. In the end, the only real indicator of who's going to win a cultural war is who has the most capital on their side. Looking through this lens, it would seem that left wing or right wing does not matter, only who is capital's champion.

Your ideas are surprisingly similar to the average Iranian’s worldview! Is that a coincidence?

your work is amazing, how come you have so few subscribers?

Starting to see the real world parallels yet?

I love the "Rotten Establishment" visual pun.

First comment!

finally somebody gets it. the valueless, amerimutt prole tried to write something big but it ended up meaningless and unfinished. and to think this even spawned a myriad of less famous startup writers who just try to mimic his style...

As someone who was in love with Game of Thrones for many years, and fell out of said love once I've realized the pointlessness and hopelessness of the story - this is THE best video I have yet watched on this topic. I will recommend your channel to all of my friends!

He might finish it....

George will subvert our expectations one last time by finishing the story in Winds of Winter.

This was fascinating

Respectfully, I feel like this video misses the fundamental influences that create left v right incentives. It is merely an arguement of egalitarianism vs hierarchy, from where we get the terms left & right during the french revolution. These things exist only where they are selected for; egalitarianism exists in systems where individuals have many options and thus reduce any individual point of leverage. In a city, this is like having 10 possible jobs rather than only 1 or 2 jobs in town. No one employer has the same leverage, as opposed to a lord/vassal relationship where you have one ruler and no option to leave. Hiercharchy only exists where leverage can be amassed in concentrations. One central group can control and direct resources. For example a rural coal town where the employer there is both politically aswell as economically powerful. Ultimately it is an enviormental question and not a political one. The enviorment selects for egalitarian political movement, it is not the political movement that shapes the enviorment. The west seems to be continuing to urbanize, and so we should expect to see the continued growth of urban liberalism via enviormental selection. Until, as they will eventually, conditions select for something else.

Growing up, I was immersed in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity and also a certain flavor of atheism in which science is distorted to justify white male supremacy. In my own personal experience, both of these belief systems are spiritual poison that I am still suffering from having been exposed to decades ago. It sounds to me like you're describing atheism as being reactionary, defining itself in opposition to fundamentalism, which we both agree is an enemy to humanity (26:03) I think that atheism, as we know it, does not provide for humanity's spiritual needs, but many atheists reflexively push back against anything "spiritual" because fundamentalism is such a monster and we atheists suspect that any religion will ultimately entail fundamentalism. As an individual mind, I have been an atheist for decades, and I have been more and more curious about how we might meet human spiritual needs without fundamentalism or organized religion, and I think that if fundamentalism someday fades from the collective consciousness, you will see atheists more open to exploring new ideas. Thank you for making this thoughtful video. I will also add that your regression to the big bang, asking at what point consciousness might first arise, if it isn't a universal property of the universe, reminds me of an argument I once came across that human technology has always been a part of the collective human organism, and that the "internet", as we know it, is very much a living thing, and that the line between sentient versus non-sentient artificial intelligence is very much arbitrary.

> The religious specialists.... were responsible for healing those who struggled mentally or spiritually with the task of living a life, often transforming them into new shamans in the process. "those who struggled mentally or spiritually with the task of living a life". I believe we are called "neurodivergent" these days.

"Too charitable for UA-cam" Hilarious. Excellent work.

Very well done! There is so much said about why people practice religion, but it is rare to come across material that truly gives a different way of seeing thing.

Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

Coupling kardashev scale to religion, very intresting

Yet somehow the system produced a platform where every half baked humanities student can promote their simplistic world views :)

It is said that Martin set ot to rival Tolkien. But while I devored Tolkiens magnificent works as a kid I struggled to even get through Martins first book as an adult. I called it quits after that. Martins style of writing is lacking, his langage bland and his worldbuilding mediocre by comparison. Why anyone feels they more from him is beyond me.

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It’s not unfinishable. It’s a complex story but we all know the beats. We all know the characters. You have battles about to jump 1:52 off at Winterfell and Mureen, and Oldtown. Whoever is left will gather at King’s landing and the wall and the results will leave us with - if not an end to the arcs as they exist now - at least an end to Wind’s and a platform to set up a true end in Dream.

Great video but I respectfully disagree. My take is ASOIAF shows how pointless posmodern “real politics” are. Everyone is fighting for the throne just for personal ambition but than enhance the real heros, common people trying to do good in a crazy world. The best example is Jon snow, who is going through a heroes journey almost by the book, to the point of being a chosen one who dies and resurects loosing part of himself only to defeat the white walkers and ended up in exile (if he ends up fighting on top of the wall with a flaming sword as he has dream) This may change with the remaining books (if they ever are finished) but i think if Martyn doesn’t go off rails ASOIAF will go in history as one of the greatest epic fantasies of all time. Cheers!

I kept thinking of Amos in the Jewish canon, who gets billed afterwards as a reformer, but his lashing out against poverty referenced nothing I can see in the doctrines before his time - no divine laws/commandments. It was a whole-cloth expansion of the moral index.

How would religions adapt to intelligent extraterrestrial life?